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l.Cnole o Evening Public Ledger
pMtvrieht, MIS, bv Stw York rimes Co.
wr, Correspondents' Headquarter on
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hoep of small raids Into the Rcr- I
ta' Jrenches, discovering the enemy's
ngtn and dispositions, and doing
Much damage as possible in a short
iU English, Australian, Canadian
,ild New Zealand troops have all been
grim ndven-
"MANS MAY TRY TO
t'3 r$ ra ana nearly every uiiuinK puny
:"tsrao UIUUKIIL Lmiiv U. len lumwitcia.
"feln these hours of darkness. when
felhe irien crawl into No Man's Land.
ijtropplng Into the v. et mud of the shell
iTl tJimW nnrl 'lvlntr rlntrtrn' when the
triALC.-. . . " "-. .
FWnlte glare or Cterman rocKeis manes
pvtry strand of barbed wire n black
Kgrtchinsr against an incandescent light
fj"i'i'that a crouching man feels mon-
IjeStrously visible among the old sand-
inland slime, there arc Intense emo-
3?r?UA.,Wt..L. -4r.l nn.l enmn
faun94wiuuii sunie int-ii uicnu mi.h w...
l like, according to tneir siaie ui
M&Wtrv and mental reactions.
BSN-Wly wrltM nbout that slde of
Jrt-5.n war," said a uanaman omcer one
Vfay, though it has been written now
hd then; "nobody describes what it
l&els like when one drags one's body
Py-'j.hrough the mud with a German ma
&,vUJehlne Bun a few yaids away and a
ffi&,0rJ'n sentry pacing up and down
rvblt,of trench and stopping to listen
o- im hflrk that one sends clat-
K&rlng down by a careless movement,
iiftwif dead hov lonor time dead outside
&MJJMM German wire befoie the last
Wjj5iV.FVnce rorwara. ina. is war, uui nui
i''i2slmm mi nnrla H
?-'SifcThls Canadian
felaa " narllan j-irt. ."-. lirtrl ft n II Aft
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perience a mue wnne ago, ana uui-
the last few days anotner naa tne
mt. He went with a raiding party
.th German outpost lines and
.yed for two hours in the German
icnea without being a living soul
iaome parts of the line, especially
t those parts where No Man's Land
vmr wftn
fA-Jaftiride, the enemy holds his forwa
tifSvAaratem very thinly, with posts he
iif fend- there and tienches behind.
ard
ere
So
.happens that, sometimes, though
prty, of course, as on tne otner nignt.
Itiih raiding parties find themselves
I, within the German lines between
Dit and another.
.Germans hae been doped with
a w -tne way 111 wnicn me uriiisn
ted, their prisoners, and It Is et-
ilnary that Herman soldiers or nor-
I lntlllmncft should bellee these fan-
ftio. Alterations. A few dais ago New
alandera who brought back some prls-
rm from a raid were amazed at the
frror'i of the Germans, which only dls-
areo wnen tney naa Deen wen rea
treated In the decent manner which
th Invariable fortune of all our pris-
rs..
ff'?'.yj-vaoon as their fright was over they
& f.f'-V:mMtr4 that thev had been told bv
ofneers that tne New Zealanders
'cannibals, who would first offer
1 cigarettes and then eat them.
rettea were offered to them, accord-
to this prophecy, and the prisoners
i. man, refused them, with signs of
x uneasiness, oui mere was no Dan-
to follow.
,';Thoe red-cheeked N(w Zealand boys
mnugeiy enjoy tne jewe or tnis rep-
tatlon, but It leaves one staggered with .
MTeredullty'of the German soldiers.
i. J Well, all those little things, these In-
lents that help to break the monotony
tranch life and form gossip of the .
Wilis, nave no more importance man '
iriqual experience in a war where I
y' massed battles count toward the .
LVfcThey are counting down south. I
th 'around between thp Alsne and.
1aW Varne, where the armies of the ,
,'.l,l;rown Prince. In slow but steady retreat,
'VEMii revealing to their own people the'
i ' Tr mwmtittinn of the disaster that has over- I
f-.-t in them. It will need a lot of ex-I
plaining in nernitiuy, ivr nui an ine
Ua ot their general staff can stay
Y 'HJnha British front, Halg's men stand '
t Xiii 'ra'tlnr- and watching for the next
ffvSTvsfewe of Prince Hupprecht's armies, which I
'an ready for an attack, but are bewil-
Sired in their purpose by the events
t have altered their whole scheme of
Mugs. It may be that they will never
.saatry out the attack that Had been
JMaaated, but from now until the end oi J
fjpw'ar will nght on the defensive In
'ie reat rear guard actions which Ger-1
SBany will fight when the Initiative is ,
jWtlra'and until there is peace.
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am
tllMHillirril in Atistrian Lower
-jaweue on ucuaa oi vzeens
g'r'jr By the Associated Press
hv
Jam, July 29 A resolution
; In favor of an Immediate peace
annexations and indemnities
MtejMtred In the Austrian lower house
&41MNM4ay by Peputy Stanek, In behalr
OfcfJtW'Cxech League. The resolution de-
that a continuation or the war is
l,Vfrom the standpoint of both hu-
.and political utility. It asserted
nersons should have the rlirht
-4etermination, and asked that
M aemana mat Austria oppose
ixatlonlst and imperialistic pol-
en naa cainea tne uoDer nana
any. and try Itself to find a way '
-teieoeratta peace.
use, says a Vienna aispatcn to
isucne iieuung, or uerim, wnicn
the Incident, rejected the reso-
r.as Inadmissaoie tor suomission
':
ty Stanek (aid tne Czech people
eeomei great and strong despite
cutlons or a narrow-minded
at. The Czechs never before
fro united, so ready to nght. so
jaw victory They are united In
1. he added, and never again wilt
t foreign joke. The Czecho-Slavak
' .
ITALIANS GREET AMERICANS
Rome Papers Play Up Arrival of
United states I roops
By the Associated Press
Rome, July 29 The newspaper
promlnentlv display announcement of
the arrival of .American troops at a
point behind the Italian front The
Americans were enthusiastically greeted
everywhere along the route, patriotic as
sociations turning out with bands.
The i-oldlers, most of whom arc Italian-Americans,
arc stationed at a camp
arranged for several weeks ago by the
American military mission which visited
the Italian front.
GERMANY'S BLOW
UTTER FAILURE
People Are Depressed Be
cause of Foch's Victorious
Counter-Stroke
'TWAS 'KAISER'S BATTLE'
By GEORGE RENWICK
Special Cable to Btcning Public l.cdper
CopwioUt Ma, bu Sew York Tlmrs to.
Ainslord.iin, .luly 23
The complete falluie of thp German
offensive, the obvious succos-s of Gen
eral Foch's counter stroke and the an
ticipation that the retreat which has
now begun would be neeesiary, have,
as I learn from several of the most
reliable uunrteis, na( n most depiess
Ing effect on Geimanv, for this latest
Ulndcnbuig-I.udendoitT offensive was
to nchleve gieat things It was to
be bomething quite special.
Since the first dnvs of the March
offensive nil the loudly trumpeted tri
umphs have left tne German people
comparatively cold. Thev hud n cou
ple of dajs of nagwnvlncr and bell
linglng at the end of Maich, but since
then all the news has been received
with that fatalism and lack of enthu
siasm to which many German speak
ers have pointedly referred After It
was seen that the Mist Kaiser battle
brought no decision, his Majesty's
name ceased to he used to chiisten the
struggle "Rojal" and the Imperial fig
ure stepped into the backgiound.
But with the offensive which started
on July 15 matters vveie different. The
Kaiser again came into the limelight.
So certnln were Hlndenhurg and Lu
dendorff of success that little seciet
was mnde beforehand of the coming
blow. The people encouraged to be
lieve thit this at last was going to be
the final and mighty stroke. So the
people cheered up. The offenle was
freely talked about in the highest cir
cles and downward hope ran hl"h.
On the morning when the offensive
began the Kaiser gave this order "Let
the troops know that in these serious
hours I am near them and that my
wlhes are with them"
The general staff officer, to whom the
order was given, drew up the follow
ing communication:
"Ills Majesty Informs the troops that
his Majesty has arrived behind the
front of attack and will watch the
battle All the good wishes of his
Malestv go with the troop" His Ma
Jety calls to them, 'with God, for the
Kaler and the Empire ' "
The Kaler signed this document "on
a shaky table by the flickering light
of a small pocket lantern" at 3 o'clock
In the morning Thus Karl Rnsner'war
correspondent of the Berlin Lokal An
zelger, related In an earllor me"age
he speaks of Hlndenburg's certainty of
success, of the great decisions taken, of
everything being ready, of the Kaiser's
belief that "the war now strides through
its deciding period "Clearly the great
est of results were looked for by the
German high command
Trench Radicals Laud U. S. Army
By the Associated Press
TarlK, Julv 21 The executive com
mittee of the Radical Socialist party
has passed a resolution praising the vic
torious troops of the Allied armies. The
resolution especially felicitated the
"oung American army" for Its "glorious
beginning."
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GERMAN RETREAT FROM MARNE
RELUCTANT ADMISSION OF DEFEAT
Military Party Can No Longer Fool People Teutons Will Sec
Justification of Von Kuehlmann Moral Effect
Will Be Incalculable
Special Cable to Liening Public Ledgcr'bow the world that in Foch they pof-
Copirwht, litt, bu .Vcte J'orH. Time Co
l'arls, Julv 20
Paris regards the abandonment cf the
whole north hank of the Marne hv the
enemy a evidence that Germany has
been at last reluctantly compelled to
admit to the whole world that she has
suffered an Indlsputahlo defeat ho long
as she continued to be able to hold on
even to the smallest fragment of the
hank of the river that will henceforward
forever shine with doubly -acred glory
In the history of France. Germany. wlthnf fh . ..r-i."
her Inverted logic, might hypnotize her i , . ,,,..,
deluded people with some sort of claim' T1,e, "fan ,pe"',11- '' ', feIt hfre
that, although checked, she was not de.,?"""?1 b,ut fe In their defeat complete
feated. and that the despised French had I J ""'. nuenimanns pro
not won the victory which all the rest of "ouncement that the Central Powers
the world awards them. coul11 "ot now ,ho,,c ,0 win y force of
, , . . , ., ., , , , , arms alone, and consequently the entire
Saturdays retreat to the Ourcd, which fftlStv of the KorKeous promises held out
has enabled the French to recover a.i,y ,he militarist party, to whoc anger
score of villages and several Important lne fell a victim With the Allied vlctorv
forests and carried our line forward an naxe bpen dlrslpited the last Illusions
average distance of between seven and tn wnleh Prussian militarism has for
eight miles on a front of nearly twenty four car, n,Rie,i the German people,
miles, has put all quibbling out of the an,i henceforward, however much their
question. The Germans have been rulers may try to camounage the bitter
soundly beaten by the superior kl!l of fnctq. the German people will begin to
General Foch and the huperloi fighting ,Pall7e the absolute hopelessness of con
qmilltles of the Frenih pollus and their tnulng the struggle with the whole clv-
American. uriusn ana liaimn aiweb me
measure of the German defeat Is all the
greater irom me laci mat iney siarteu
the present battle on more than level
terms In men and munitions Kxactlv a
fortnight ago, tho enemy, In the full
flush of four consecutive months of vir
tually uninterrupted victories, began
what they believed would be a battle
mat wouia eumin.iie me r reiiun army as .Allies, and It will be an Invaluable fac
a factor In the war tor In the future development of the
That battle has enabled the Allies to struggle.
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'M?ifiiLkiiZZA
(C) Committrn un lubllc Inform itlon
our observers u'ccnding in a balloon
battlelinc in France
sess a grester strategist than the great
general staff of the forcmot military na
tlon the world has produced, and better
fighting armies than Prussian militarism
has hem able to create. Its concrete re
sults have been to cause Germany to
suffer the sharpest and mot definite de
feat ince the war began, with the pos
lblo exception of the first battle of the
Marne Its moral effect on the German
ennle. nnrrllncr tn inin hr. m t,.
inealeiilnhle. in vl. nf nil th 'nim.m.
.stance. ,nn ,,eCanv ., ,hl. ,.,-, -..-
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BRITISH EXPECT
ATTACKBYF0E
New German Offensive Is
Deemed Necessary to
Relieve Marne
KAISER HAS RESERVES
Home Sentiment and Crown
Prince's Despcrnte Situa
tion Cnll for Move
By EDWIN L. JAMES
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
rrnrnht. til, bu Vrie Vorfc rim" Co.
With the American Army on the Marne,
Julv 20
One hears now much talk of a new
German offensive Many nf these reports
come from German sources
It Is generally ndmltted thit. despite
the losses Inflicted on the Germans In the
check of their drive of July IS and tho
Allied counter-offensive, the Kaiser Is
still able to launch another effort
This would he In accord with the Ger
man plans adopted In March Further
more, It would take the attention of the
German people from the recent reverses
of the Crown Prince, and even a fnomen
tarv uccess might well bolster up the
waning German morale
May Attack HrltMi Front
From German sources come agiln re
ports of an attack to he rmrte against
the British front. It Is known tint In
the last few days the reserves cf Prince
Rupprecht's armies have been concen
trating between Amiens and Yprcs The
Insertion of a new army, under General
von IChen. between the armv of General
von Boehm and that of General von
Ifutler, besides strengthening the Oet
man hold on Rolssons, might help Von
Hutler's front by leaving him somewhat
Ics to do.
The German high command has not
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netween Rolssons and uhelms. Before the
,111-rated drive or the Crown Prince
smarted, on July 18, It Is estimated that
the Germans had slaty-flve to seventy
Ave divisions In reserve. There remain
, perhaps twenty-three divisions which
have not jet been Identified In the Sols-sons-Hhelms
battle. This may be be
cause tney nae not Been there.
Itnpe to Weaken Allied Pressure
The Germans would hope, nf course,
bv a new drive to weaken the force of
tho Allied presure on the Solssons
Ilhelms front. Xiie recent attack of the
French troops ajarth of Montdldler may
have Interfered with the German plans
for a move between Montdldler and the
Olse.
In dlscuslng a possible German at
tack against the British It Is to be noted
that the Germans tried the Cnampagne
and 'failed, tried between Ithelms and
Solssons and Montdldler and failed. The
high command has promised the Herman
people to keep on trying.
Airplane observers report a concen
tration of German forces on the Plateau
of Tardenols, and there Is evidence of
German activity in the Forest of RIs
north of the Maine, which might presage
a counter-attack there.
Captured officers lell of the great
difficulties the Germans are having to
supply the troops In the salient south of
the Alsne. All the railroads available
to them, as well as ths lost highways,
are hslng constantly shelled by Ameri
can. French nnd British artillery.
The Germans cannot make use of the
railroads centering In the Rhelms dis
trict. At Solssons for more than a week
Allied artillery has dominated the rail
road yards there.
KIDNAPPERS GUILTY
Couple Sentenced for Illegally Detain
ing American in France
By the Associated Press
Moulin. Frnree, July 29 Andre Bls
cive and his wife, Anna, today wore
found guilty of having illegally detained
James Samuel Slater, of Wcbsifr, Mass,
In a chateau and compelling him to sign
cheiks In their favor
The court decided that there were ex
tenuating circumstances, and sentenced
Blscaye and his wife to Ave years' Im
prisonment, but ordered them to restore
the money, furniture and Jewels taken
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Congress Now in Session Finds
Them in Complicated
Position
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
CopvHoht, tt, bv Xtw York Ttmt Co,
Paris, July 29 The congress of the
French National" Socialist party, which
Is In session here, promises to bring
about some striking modifications In the
entire party. The whole organization
of the French Socialists Is today In a
complicated position.
Three years ago the party consisted
of several sections. There were the
Majorltalres. who may be described ns
the patriotic section of the party These
form the Socialist right wing. Then
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